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The Person and Primary Emotions

The Person and Primary Emotions

Bertocci, Peter A.

Paperback

Series: Recent Research in Psychology

Medical ReferenceCognition

ISBN10: 0387968121
ISBN13: 9780387968124
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 25 1988
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I shall propose that the unlearned motives of persons are primary emotions. I am not surprised that many informed readers will wonder where I have been for the last five decades when even the conception of unlearned motives (instincts, drives, urges) has been shown to be little more than the result of undisciplined investigation? And here I am proposing that in the nature and dynamics of some emotions that persons experience we can gain more adequate understanding of human motives at the unlearned level. During the last five decades I have spent most of my time teaching the histlDry of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics and theory of value, the psychology of personali ty, and th philosophy of personality. Increasingly I have paid special attention to the ways in which claims about the nature of man I influence the theory of motives, emotions, and feelings. What kept impressing me is the way in which the viii interpretation of the findings about motives, feelings, and emotion reflect unargued conceptions of human nature, or that the views of fundamental motives, feelings, and emotions unduly dominate the underlying conception of the person. In focusing attention first on the essential nature of a person I shall be discussing issues that are actually basic to our more analytical interpretation of the nature and dynamics of the primary motives or primary emotions.

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